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Friday, April 1, 2011

Revamping the Stargate

Frequently, I make it partway into a project and realize it's just not working out the way it did in my head and have to change things up. I haven't done any work on the Stargate quilt in more than a week. I was stuck and just wasn't feeling the four circles. I also realized it was going to be quite a large quilt with my original plans and decided I actually wanted it to be a smaller lap quilt. I was also stuck debating on the color for the background fabric. I had a bit of inspiration last night and decided to change things up quite a bit.

Instead of doing four Dresden circles, I decided to break them up and use them for the back of the quilt in an Oh, Fransson New Wave style. I'm a big fan of double-sided quilts. I'm planning to sash them with Kona Coal in with a 1/2" or 3/4" finished strip.

For the front, I'm planning to use white for the background fabric, although I think I'll use Kona Coal for the center of the Dresden. I'm using those charms I cut to make HST for borders. Currently, I'm feeling a couple borders of scrappy flying geese. Now, I'm off to cut coal sashing and lots of white squares to pair with my charms for the HST.

I love what you've done ... I've just cut up a few of my extras too and made them into blocks ... the circles were just too ... well, circular, for me! I'm still doing my colour wheel, just one though!

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